joint’s lost the plot
it has become absurd

A valid fear. Introspection seems to have been eschewed.
Today was nothing but self-validation of the mocking of each other.

My previous posted comment was intended to be a broad brush-stroke. The most vocal seem to have instead interpreted it as striving to be an exhaustive detailing of the ailments of this page and the shortcomings of each commentator, and pointed out their perceived gaps in the “report”, in similar manner as the recounting today of President Carter’s preoccupation with minutiae whilst simultaneously avoiding the macro.

There certainly was no intention to imply Struth has not been the author of his own miring. However the mocking of him has become repetitive and in some cases infantile, continuing long past the point where it has any value.

Regards having a Monty or Numbers, to play the role of foil. That does not advance discussion or encourage knowledge sharing.
That style of surrounding and browbeating an alternative thinker is unbecoming of adults and should remain on ABC TV’s Q&A program.

Numbers, to use his popular nickname, made unreadable every thread he occupied. To quote one of today’s commentators, Numbers was boring. It was the same worn out arguments and responses, for thread after thread.
It was near impossible to lurk once he arrived in a thread. Any sane reader clicked over to another website, or perhaps another thread.
Thankfully the old Catallaxy had many side threads which were eminently readable.
That is not yet quite the case with new Catallaxy.

Departures over the past few weeks aside, there have been quite some thoughtful, interesting commentators who have disappeared. No one commentator is key to the site’s success. Everybody here is dispensable.
Sometimes culling is painful, though necessary.

The fiery commentator JC’s propensity to use randomly assigned nicknames is not endearing or entertaining, it is in fact quite confusing, serving only to add a layer of incomprehension to his comments. On a site comprised of pseudonyms there is no leeway for a secret and random second language, known only to one person.

His claims of never initiating a stoush seem a very good tongue-in-cheek display. Until the point where it become clear to even the most casual of observers that he believes it, and that his obsessive pursuit of those to whom he arbitrarily takes a dislike is not an act, instead being deadly serious.
The nature of his propensity to harbour a multi-day obsession with almost any other commentator, over a random and unpredictable minor point, would in real life be chilling. Nor should it be taken lightly on this page.
Loud proclamations are always made that someone is being pursued because they are “wrong”, when usually this is not the case.
It is the domain of a severe narcissist to obtusely believe they are always right whilst others are always wrong.

The obsession this person has with selected other commentators can only be described as insane.

Normal people may not be interested in pushing through this type of headwind, to comment on what seems to be turning into an “insiders only” blog atmosphere.

There is every likelihood such conduct has been turning off prospective commentators, driving away sensible commentators, and causing readers to drift away.

Catallaxy is unique. It must not be allowed to wither so.

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UKRAINE

Remember What You’re Fighting For –

https://gab.com/Python14/posts/107995681651462831

Ukraine Adopts WEF Proposals

Posted Mar 17, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Zelensky has just signed into law the first steps of Schwab’s Great Reset. He announced he is introducing a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity & a Vaccine Passport all within their Diia app. He also says that because so much money is coming into Ukraine as he has become an international celebrity, he has legalized cryptocurrencies in Ukraine. He will allow foreign and Ukrainian cryptocurrencies exchanges to operate legally, according to the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation.

[Crypto Announcement img]

So far, he has taken in over $63 million in cryptocurrency donations.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/ukraine-adopts-wef-proposals/
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Funny how the whole, ‘Crypto is the Dark Money of the Dark Web where there is Nothing you Can’t Buy’, has been memory holed just in time to sell crypto to every average Joe & Jane & Mum & Dad when their ‘support’ for the WEF’s whole new system of things also needs to be ‘bought’.

Neocon Plot to Overthrow Putin & Xi
Posted Mar 21, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

[img of Soros beating the anti-Xi & anti-Putin war drums; link below]

This war has really nothing to do with Ukraine for this country has been used as cannon fodder to overthrow Putin – the second target in this New World Order. The first was the removal of Trump and the last will be the removal of Xi Jinping. This is a major effort to cause regime change in Russia. The sanction has been so outrageous that they are indeed an act of outright war. The strategy to remove all three has been in play and you can tell the very same tactics are used. They DEMONIZE the leader in order to defeat him and to cause people to hate him.

In the case of Putin, they have been doing that in the United States when Hillary, a Neocon herself, manufactured the entire Russia Conspiracy that Putin interfered in the 2016 election. It was Hillary who allowed the bankers to intervene in the Russian 2000 election which backfired and Yeltsin turned to Putin once he discovered the plot.

Video Player [Lindsey Graham link below]
01:58

Lindsey Graham is also a Neocon who has outright called for Russians to assassinate Putin. All we are getting now is propaganda pushing the agenda of regime change in Russia. The story being put out by Ukrainian Intelligence is that a group of Russian elites are allegedly now conspiring to overthrow Putin and “restore economic ties” with the West. They are posting this on Facebook post from the Chief Directorate of Intelligence for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This is clearly propaganda for if there was truly a plot, they would not be warning Putin. Instead, they are creating an imaginary plot in hope for forming one and to create discord in the politics of Russia. It is a ploy as old as history.

Facebook has changed its guidelines to allow for the posting of violence against Russia and calling for the death of Putin. Zuckerberg is also one of these Young Global Leaders of the WEF. As many are praying, his stock should keep going down for the plots that have been hatched in Facebook.

The Ukrainians are even naming Alexander Bortnikov, the Russian Director of the Federal Security Service and a member of Putin’s inner circle, as a successor to the president. They are seeking the conquest of Russia but forcing the people to rise up and overthrow their government because of the sanctions. Biden even threatened China according to the White House stating that serious “implications and consequences” will follow if Beijing decides to give material aid to Russia to support its war in Ukraine. The White House claimed that Biden laid out for Mr. Xi the punishments the United States will inflict upon China and it too would pay a similarly heavy price if it supported Putin.

“He made clear what the implications and consequences would be if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Friday afternoon. She declined to say how Mr. Xi responded or give details on the costs the United States has threatened to impose on Beijing, as reported in the New York Times.

China released the transcript of the phone call between Biden and Xi on Chinese state media. Xi expressed opposition to the broad sanctions the United States, European and Asian nations have imposed on Russia, warning they could trigger crises in the global economy. In this score, he is absolutely right. These very same tactics will be turned on China after they are finished with regime change in Russia. Xi referenced a Chinese saying, “Let he who tied the bell on the tiger take it off,” which is an idiom that the responsibility for solving a problem should fall on the person who created it. The transcript does not indicate that Xi would play a role in ending the war.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a “turning point for the world,” arguing that a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces would herald “a new age of intimidation.”

We are looking at the beginning of World War III. In order to pull off this Great Reset, they needed to remove Trump, Putin, and Xi in hopes of then subordinating both China and Russia to the New World Order with the United Nations in control.

[more links] https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/products/neocon-plot-to-overthrow-putin-xi/

Those not on Twitter can’t scroll down, they get blocked.

I’m not on twitter, but had no problem scrolling down to the item, although I think it’s a beat up.
Believe it not gypsies are notorious for appropriating property not belonging to them, to put it mildly, so they are treated just like other looters, nothing to do with ethnicity.

Link to the above.

KHARKIV
Mariupol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZK7o-pyw8&t=19s

Streamed live 3 hours ago
Gonzalo Lira
111K subscribers

Thread 4:33 pm · 21 Mar 2022

Gonzalo Lira @realGonzaloLira
IMPORTANT

A thread about civilians in Mariupol.

I just got word from a Ukrainian acquaintance.

Her parents and aunt and uncle were living in Mariupol (she was raised there but moved away for university).
1/4

She tells me that her family were shot at by Ukrainian Armed Forces on multiple occasions, which prevented them from leaving the city. She did not explain the circumstances of them being fired upon, but said that it had been more than once.
2/4

However, they said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were losing, and had finally left their residential area, allowing them to flee to the Russians.

The Russians fed them, and put them on transportation to Rostov (she didn’t say what sort of transportation).
3/4

They said the biggest deal was that the Russians gave them a lot of food, because they had been starving during the siege.

This is actual testimony from a person whom I’ve known for some time, so I know that it’s not propaganda or nonsense—this is as real as it gets.
4/4

When your crisis actors have an 8 pack a day habit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HthiJ_WFl_A

When the officials of Mongland design a womens group logo you know it won’t end well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxFOJJzzcI

With reference JC’s comment last night “Why come clean on the Hunter Biden laptop now”.
Who knows, but maybe it’s got something to do with Hunters tax evasion case.

No matter what Biden says, he can not undo the time line around the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor.

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1505566110044762113?s=20&t=-RayH9PvGo2yG_h0PsxgQA

Warning: Incoming rant:

Thanks to the watchers and sharers on Catallaxy I saw/heard Lara Logan’s interview on Rumble about what was happening on the ground in the Russia/Ukraine contretemps garnished with a little history – what a gal she is fearless and it was truth bombs all the way.

It all goes back to US interference:

The corruption of the US great societal experiment established by its Founding Fathers with a Constitutional Republic as its crown has been utterly corrupted by small, soulless, immoral, venal, evil and power-hungry men and now women (Victoria Nuland and before her Madeline Albright and after her the head of that covenous(?) threesome Hillary Clinton) the destruction of the great USA is tragic for the people who honour and believe in the values expressed in their Constitution. (They say 200-300 years is the average for a civilisation, where are we now)

The US it is no longer a beacon for the good but has latterly become a dim lantern lighting the way to Hell -it was good while it lasted – it is ever thus –

God made humanity in his image but gave us free will and sadly it is the flawed, ill-disciplined and sinful who use that free will to do evil while the good stand by – of the 7 deadly sins hubristic pride is the worst -some poetry has always stayed with me – W. B Yeats The Second Coming‘s opening stanza is so prophetic of the tumultuous times in which we now live:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ the ceremony if innocence is drowned/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity/

The whole thing echoes the devastation in Europe written as it was just after the end of the First World War, riven by the Spanish flu (his pregnant wife almost died), the Bolsheviks began their murderous regime, hope was in scarce supply indeed.

While the first stanza of T.S. Elliott’s The Hollow Men so perfectly describes the current corrupt, spineless and weak leadership in the declining, crumbling , irreligious, immoral West which is the reason we are in this spot. Looking at you Wobbleguts and the rest of the tuckers.

We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men/Leaning together/Headpiece filled
with straw.Alas!/Our dried voices, when/ we whisper together/ Are quiet and meaningless/As wind in dry grass/Or rats’ feet over broken glass/In our dry cellar/
(I can hear the faltering incohernt croaks of those evil corruptocrats Biden and Pelosi)

Rant over/ too much coffee is way too much.

Gabor says:
March 22, 2022 at 6:27 am
[…]
So sorry, I misunderstood, here is the link I used, I assume it’s the same as what was posted.

Apologies, ssr.

Thanks but that was the same link rosie posted, not what she told us to scroll down to.

And yeah, I don’t know why anyone still uses being banned by Facebook, Twitter & the rest of the Social Media Narrative Controlling platforms is a bad thing.

Some of the very best follows are on that list, the sort of people who can get you banned for sharing their content. People such as Donald J. Trump, 45th President of The United States.

ssr
OK got it not familiar with twitter, never use it and hardly ever follow links to it.
This is the closer link,
hope it works.

Tintarella di Luna says:
March 22, 2022 at 6:59 am
Warning: Incoming rant:

Thanks to the watchers and sharers on Catallaxy I saw/heard Lara Logan’s interview on Rumble […]

Yes it was good to listen to more than some short snippets posted elsewhere and actually see that she personally understands The Big Picture & isn’t simply putting out the latest talking points.

Tinta, the moment in November 2020 that the vast election corruption became apparent, I opined that the US had lost all moral authority in world affairs. Two months later, that view was cemented by the Capital protests.

No amount of “revelations” by the media and backpedaling by politicians will change that. It’s like respect – once it’s lost it can never be regained. The house of cards has fallen.

Where to from here?

I had to look a couple of times at Alexopolous this morning. In the end, the swim goggles gave it away.

It’s probably been said here before but just imagine for a moment if China, Russia or Iran was using Mexico as a proxy to cause instability on the US’s borders and in the US itself, you don’t think that a US administration would not take measures, including military, to curb this interference?

Yes I have said as much to family members while explaining a bit of recent history vis a vis the Minsk agreement/the Maidan revolution (the revolution of dignity – ha!) – they know none of it at all sadly, my family’s consumption of MSM is rotting their brains —

Indeed Cassie I use exactly this case in point — anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? JFK wasn’t having any of it.

“Police located the body of a male person who was deceased from an apparent gunshot wound.”
The house is located about 30km south of Katherine near the Cutta Cutta Caves Nature Park.

30kms for Katherine and he doesn’t have a backhoe?

Same, Tinta. Conversation just yesterday with another stitcher and bitcher – she knew nothing about ongoing US interference in Ukraine and the web of corruption. It was all black and white – Ukraine holy, Russia evil.

ABC viewer, naturally.

On Kitching:

We know it to be true because we heard it from her.

Wait! What? A reporter getting information from a primary source? How about that!

Looks like everyone knew about the toxic culture in Labor but no one was game to talk about it. It took a death to unseal their lips and typing fingers. Funny how the “wymmyn problems” always involve conservative politicians until they don’t.

Looks like Kitching was not going to be pre-selected again:

Yes Top Ender – One of Kimberley Kitching’s good friends Diana Asmar (Health Service Union) tweeted about this and said on the drive home from hearing that she was not to be pre-selected her ‘beautiful heart’ gave up.

Old School Conservative says:
March 22, 2022 at 8:09 am

Exhibit A in the “write something entertaining”.

That made me laugh so loud it startled the birds.

Format fail!

who has disappeared?

Excellent question.

culling is painful, though necessary

Necessary for who? For people who contribute nothing – nothing – to the forum but who pop up once every so often to complain about the free entertainment?

It’s an analogy used before but accurate. It’s like someone rocking up to somebody else’s house every six months, demanding the occupant move the couches around in the lounge room, and would it kill you to put a feature wall in? before pissing off.

Or the late-night talkback radio callers who moan about the timings of Carols by Candlelight on TV every year because it doesn’t fit their bedtime, and/or to agitate for the return of Denis Walter.

Everyday we are being gaslighted and lied to…but you know what’s worse? We’re being encouraged and told to lie. I don’t know about others but I will not.

Cassie exactly what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exhorts every individual to do:

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

It’s just getting silly now.

Today I’m reliably* informed that there are two, yes two! new brands of covid. Deltacron and Stealth Omicron.

Meanwhile deadly Dumbicron rampages unchecked through entire populations.

* article may contain fragments of truth

Letter to the Editor:

Dear Sir,

As someone who has received correspondence from Target for over forty years, I ask the question – why, oh why oh why are all the children pictured in the catalogues smiling?

They should have a sombre expression, conveying the message that they are serious about embarking on their working lives in as little as ten years from now. Also, the colours of the clothes they wear are too bright and festive.

It’s no wonder this country is going to hell in a handbasket when children in this day and age appear in my free glossy pamphlets looking like they have not a care in the world.

I strongly suggest that whoever is responsible for producing my free catalogues take a good hard look at themselves, and lift their game. Don’t start me on the shiftless layabouts delivering them, and that I see through my lounge room window. At anywhere from 9.44 a.m. to as late as 3.12 p.m., mind, which is another thing I am less than impressed with.

Yours sincerely,

Enraged from Hampton

The solution is clear.

There needs to be a third assignment of wards, loos, fitting rooms and other binary facilities to protect females physically and psychologically, and cater to the mental deficiencies of certain men.

Add a “trans” room. Fixed.

Meanwhile deadly Dumbicron rampages unchecked through entire populations.

Five is the magic number that will save us all!

Fourth ‘Spring’ Jab Offered to Britons, Health Secretary Hints at FIFTH Jab (21 Mar)

Javid is not the first government official to hint at the possibility of a fifth vaccination, however.

During an interview with American broadcaster NBC, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, Dr Anthony Fauci, noted that it was “entirely conceivable” that additional boosters will be needed to fight off COVID.

This is as crazy as the mad qwerty stuff. When will the human race come to its senses?

Spot on Knuckles. What I like about the Flash Cat is the varied takes by commenters on the same subject, giving a perspective not reached by just reading a post. Also the differing backgrounds of commenters, most of whom have or are still contributing to our country. We are all biased in some way otherwise we wander round aimlessly. I never expect others to see things the way I do, all I hope is they may consider a differing point of view even if rejecting it as it tempers their own view.

What amazes me (not that I’m capable of much “amazement” these days) is the vast urban sprawl on what was flood plain at Riverstone, Schofields and Vineyard.

It’s as if, by the stroke of a planner’s pen, the flood waters from innumerable ephemeral watercourses can suddenly be stopped.

TWO MINUTES OF TERROR China plane crash – Terrifying moment Boeing 737 carrying 132 nosedives 29,000ft vertically into mountain at 350mph

Extraordinary brief video clip. A plane crash is always awful, but in this instance it’s hard to imagine how awful the last moments would have been.

I’m far from an aviation expert, but something bizarre must have happened.

KD, re the smiling kiddies, you forgot that they have been told that they are all going to fry, if the planet doesn’t turn into a vast ecological desert because evil humans first.

The happy snaps are a lie. What would St Greta say?

Lode, the areas I mentioned are on a flood plain. Regardless of dams, they will flood. Concreting over the soil won’t stop it happening. The water has to go somewhere and there’s no pipe or channel big enough.

The “Sydney Basin” is just that.

In Not Many People Know That news:

‘Russian elite’ plan to POISON Putin and have chosen a successor, claim spooks

A brief from the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has said that FSB director Oleksandr Bortnikov is being lined up to replace Vladimir Putin

“In particular, poisoning, sudden disease, or any other ‘coincidence’ is not excluded.”

Presumably Comrade Bortnikov will be hoping that nobody in the Kremlin reads the Daily Mirror and picks up on his cunning plan.

Mother Lode, if you ever catch the train out to the western suburbs of Sydney, there are large areas as you get towards Blacktown where the railway line is on a high, raised embankment, which effectively keeps it level, and down below are vast areas of swamp which dry out in summer or during droughts, but are otherwise bogland. Yet, they have built houses to within a few hundred metres.

As calli says, there is simply nowhere for the water to go, and never will be. But a few shonky developers and councillors/council employees have got rich by concealing this information from unsuspecting homebuyers.

On another note, browsing Queanbeyan’s premier bookshop (Anglicare) yesterday, I picked up a copy of Murray Walker’s autobiography, Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken, for $3.00. According to the blurb, Walker was a tank commander in WWII and later an advertising executive before he became known as a motor racing commentator. Should be an interesting read.

Tell you what, Anglicare sure beats those awful chain bookshops like Dymocks (before they became almost extinct) for variety, not to mention price. None of the three excellent books I’ve picked up in the last couple of weeks would be found there, because they were published several years ago, and even if you could order them, they would cost ten times as much.

Whew. Phone scrolling so I have probably missed a lot.

No idea who Dolores is so that one fell through to the floor.

Delta, be sensible as you usually are. Internet bullying exists and can be harmful if it becomes persistent and extreme. Reasonable self-regulation is the answer. It is also a waste of people’s time. Dover is right to ask for less of it here.

Also, Bourne, what I chose to write about is my own business.
And so is whether I wish to be a commenter here or not. As Dover has introduced his guidelines the place I think is better at minding its p’s and q’s.

Now, a minor travel blog. It’s gloomy weather in a Per Gynt furthest reaches of the world sense here in Hobart looking out over the sweep of the Derwent from the 19th floor of the faded old 5 star Grand Chancellor. We like these older places because they often have the best position offering more spacious rooms and we always prefer a view to trendy designer updates in newer boutique hotels, often peculiar in style with tech posing as art, in smaller viewless rooms.

ZELENSKY CAUSES OUTRAGE IN ISRAEL AFTER COMPARING RUSSIA’S MILITARY OPERATION TO THE HOLOCAUST

I realise that I didn’t get hot under the collar about those photos of gypsy women being tied to poles with their faces painted. In the same way I don’t get agitated about random photos of anything much any more.

Unless it is proven to be real and not just another serving of b/s.

My emotions aren’t just anyone’s to manipulate. They are guarded very carefully. In a post-truth world you have to be cautious.

Boobooks in Armidale. A treasure house of out-of-print goodness.

If you’re in the New England area worth a look.

I also used to frequent the book stalls at village markets. Picked over, but still some great finds.

Well rosie, O sanctimonious one, the author of a book that retails in a shop for $30 would be lucky to get the $3.00 I paid for Murray’s autobiography, even if he were still alive. With a few exceptions, authors get a very small proportion of the retail price.

How on Earth did we get from discussing boring and overpriced chain shops to second hand outlets being parasitic or something? Sheesh!

Boobooks in Armidale. A treasure house of out-of-print goodness.

Is that still there? I remember going there over 30 years ago, and it was well established even then. Just goes to show there is a market for quality, albeit probably not a very large one.

Authors get 10% of the RRP. That can be even less later if the contract says the publisher can sell the books at a discount.

Bookshops get 40%.

The publisher gets 50%, but out of that they have to pay for the graphic design, printing, and distribution – and make a profit.